Sunday, August 24, 2008
Remember me?
It's weird... once you get out of the habit of blogging regularly, it's really hard to get back in. I've been wanting to post for about two weeks now, but I don't know what to write about or where to start. This happens every time I take a hiatus (which is kind of in between every post these days...). I guess the remedy for that would be to stop being so lazy and post often.
So, instead of having something big and important to write about, I'm going to write about a few things I'm currently interested in. Or obsessed with. Whichever.
First off, I'm trying my hand at writing. I'm sure no one remembers this, but I tried to do National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo for short) in November 2006. I started off strong, but got distracted. Go figure. Anyway, I thought I'd try again this year, maybe with a young adult novel. So I started formulating a plot in my head, and I think I've pretty much got it down. The only problem is that it's August, and if I'm participating in NaNoWriMo, I can't actually start writing until November. So, the other night I couldn't sleep, and I dug up my previous failed attempt from 2006 on the computer. I started reading through it, and it wasn't half bad (for a crappy first attempt at writing a novel in a month). So I'm working on it now, sort of as a writing exercise. I've been working on it since Wednesday, and it's slow going. But I'm having a good time figuring out what's happening to my characters. I hope to have the rough draft done by the end of October. It's funny, I've never taken a creative writing course or anything, so I don't know why I think I can pull this off. Oh well, I'm having fun doing it.
As I prepare for November and my young adult novel, I'm worried that I'll run into the same problem as the last time I tried NaNoWriMo - the fact that we usually take a long vacation over Thanksgiving. Victor's laptop is literally six years old and on its last legs, so taking it with us is not an option. So, we're going to bite the bullet and replace it. We went to Best Buy yesterday to scope out computers, and they've got some decent, lightweight machines for less than a thousand bucks. We don't intend the laptop to do much other than word processing, internet, and maybe photos... our music and stuff will all still remain on the desktop computer. So there's no need to get crazy with a super expensive laptop.
Oh, also at Best Buy, we picked up a Wii Fit!!! I haven't hooked it up yet, but I'm so excited to give it a try. I've been wanting one since they came out, but couldn't find it anywhere.
One of the things I keep meaning to write about is my latest sad, sad obsession: Twilight. I've never hidden the fact that I'm a teenage girl at heart, so it shouldn't come as any surprise that these books would appeal to me. I read all of the books in less than a week, and I've pretty much reread them all, except for the parts that really annoyed me. Some of my favorite scenes I've read maybe fifty or sixty times. It's really silly. I feel like an idiot. And yeah, now I'm checking fansites and snarky livejournals and the movie webpage all the time, looking for the latest news, interviews, movie stills... But I've hesitated writing about it, because I don't know if anyone cares what I think about these (fairly poorly-written but completely compelling) books. I am pretty sure Victor is about to kill me at any moment, if I mention Edward Cullen or vampires or Robert Pattinson one more time... At any rate, if I ever get my thoughts together I may post them here.
Finally, one last obsession... sad Scottish music. Ah, how I have neglected you! I'm glad you're back in my life, and I'm sorry it took four straight days of rain in Dallas for us to get back together.
It's weird... once you get out of the habit of blogging regularly, it's really hard to get back in. I've been wanting to post for about two weeks now, but I don't know what to write about or where to start. This happens every time I take a hiatus (which is kind of in between every post these days...). I guess the remedy for that would be to stop being so lazy and post often.
So, instead of having something big and important to write about, I'm going to write about a few things I'm currently interested in. Or obsessed with. Whichever.
First off, I'm trying my hand at writing. I'm sure no one remembers this, but I tried to do National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo for short) in November 2006. I started off strong, but got distracted. Go figure. Anyway, I thought I'd try again this year, maybe with a young adult novel. So I started formulating a plot in my head, and I think I've pretty much got it down. The only problem is that it's August, and if I'm participating in NaNoWriMo, I can't actually start writing until November. So, the other night I couldn't sleep, and I dug up my previous failed attempt from 2006 on the computer. I started reading through it, and it wasn't half bad (for a crappy first attempt at writing a novel in a month). So I'm working on it now, sort of as a writing exercise. I've been working on it since Wednesday, and it's slow going. But I'm having a good time figuring out what's happening to my characters. I hope to have the rough draft done by the end of October. It's funny, I've never taken a creative writing course or anything, so I don't know why I think I can pull this off. Oh well, I'm having fun doing it.
As I prepare for November and my young adult novel, I'm worried that I'll run into the same problem as the last time I tried NaNoWriMo - the fact that we usually take a long vacation over Thanksgiving. Victor's laptop is literally six years old and on its last legs, so taking it with us is not an option. So, we're going to bite the bullet and replace it. We went to Best Buy yesterday to scope out computers, and they've got some decent, lightweight machines for less than a thousand bucks. We don't intend the laptop to do much other than word processing, internet, and maybe photos... our music and stuff will all still remain on the desktop computer. So there's no need to get crazy with a super expensive laptop.
Oh, also at Best Buy, we picked up a Wii Fit!!! I haven't hooked it up yet, but I'm so excited to give it a try. I've been wanting one since they came out, but couldn't find it anywhere.
One of the things I keep meaning to write about is my latest sad, sad obsession: Twilight. I've never hidden the fact that I'm a teenage girl at heart, so it shouldn't come as any surprise that these books would appeal to me. I read all of the books in less than a week, and I've pretty much reread them all, except for the parts that really annoyed me. Some of my favorite scenes I've read maybe fifty or sixty times. It's really silly. I feel like an idiot. And yeah, now I'm checking fansites and snarky livejournals and the movie webpage all the time, looking for the latest news, interviews, movie stills... But I've hesitated writing about it, because I don't know if anyone cares what I think about these (fairly poorly-written but completely compelling) books. I am pretty sure Victor is about to kill me at any moment, if I mention Edward Cullen or vampires or Robert Pattinson one more time... At any rate, if I ever get my thoughts together I may post them here.
Finally, one last obsession... sad Scottish music. Ah, how I have neglected you! I'm glad you're back in my life, and I'm sorry it took four straight days of rain in Dallas for us to get back together.
